Eduardo Mondlane

Eduardo Mondlane (20 June 1920-3 February 1969) was the leader of FRELIMO in Mozambique from September 1962 to February 1969, preceding Samora Machel.

Biography
Eduardo Mondlane was born on 20 June 1920 in Mandlakazi, Mozambique, which was a colony of Portugal at the time. He studied at a Swiss Protestant school and studied at Northwestern University in Illinois, United States, where he met his wife Janet Mondlane. Mondlane worked in the United Nations before heading to Tanzania to join the independence struggles in East Africa. In 1962, he founded the socialist FRELIMO party to fight for the independence of Portuguese East Africa, beginning the Mozambican War of Independence in 1964. On 3 February 1969, he was killed in a parcel bombing by the PIDE secret police, with agent Casimiro Monteiro being the assassin. Samora Machel replaced him as the FRELIMO leader.